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the carolina watchman vol xl-third series salisbury n c december 25 1879 no 10 poetry __^- ==: for uie watchman remember me _ . n hpr me is often heard f stm9 do bid adieu ad do how sweet each loving word - we will remember you now they may roam tar far away whh friendship ever true nsfiuard thoughts will often say fe will remember you iteofh time rolls back each passing year ud bid each scene begone th e mind will ever cling most dear to torn kind living one tbeir lovelv forms and faces sweet that here we happy see uthough wc them may seldom meet will still remembered be oh when from earth dear ones are gone that inn-bright clime to see j f lp as to ay whin sad and lone dear lord remember me kor in the heat of pain and strife ' think god hath cast thee oil unheard nor that the man whose prosperous life ' thou enviest is of hina preterred time pusses and much change doth bring all j s cts a hound to everything sing pray and swerve not from his ways " but do thine own part faithfully trust his rich promises of grace so shall it be fulfil led in thee god never vet forsook in need the soul tiiat trusted him indeed _ fi'iiiii the german tis weary watching wave by wave ami yet the tide heave onward ; we climb like corals grave by grave hut pare the path that's sen ward we're beaten hack in many a fray but never strength we borrow ami where the vanguard camps to-day tho rear shall rest to-morrow â€” herald masscg a jewel whieh nu indian mind can buy sachemic art can counterfeit ; it makes men rich in greatest poverty mtkes water wine turns wooden cups to gold seldom it comes to few from heaven sent lhat much in little all is nought con tent miscellaneous in a bear's clutches t*t terrible experience ofa young woman in the willis of pennxyleania hnttea's j-i.nue pa november ??. about a month ago mi alice corey of . ew york city came to visit her uncle a herman who owns a small farm in the bjounuin-i six miles northwest of this place mist corey is about 16 year old and her r.dts are well to do her uncle has a daughter clara also aged about ki years her father having but one son clara has for year helped to do the work on the farm nd she has become an expert shot with a rifle bbe has a mania for hunting and fre l-.ntly goes into the forest in search of uie i few days ago clara invited her cousin 'â– ) accompany her on a hunting expedition they started from the house shortly after alice with a double-barreled gun ud tiara with a rifle after scouring the ds for several hours without much suc Â«â– they visited dark swamp this wimp embraces several hundred acres is femely wooded and bears are frequently *Â» there the girls reached the edge of keswsmp at noon and started into the teket they had gone but a short dis tace when hiss corey who was walking few yards behind her cousin heard crack h we in the bud.es a short distance â– *. hooking around she saw a lar^c Â«Â£ bear coming toward her clara who u i frequently encountered these shaggy wen called to her frightened cousin to jetoher she then drew her rifle to her her and taking deliberate aim at the ml awaited until it came within easy p and then fired the bear uttered a â– ofl>ain and fell bleeding as clara's was a single-barrel one she seized the gun from her cousin and rged botu barrels at the infurated an nthe hope of killing it outright but * e disappearance of the smoke from jpmh jbea was seen rithing but _â€¢___?: , . rave youn Â« woman Â«Â»Â« Â£****_ cautiously to within reaching wounded animal and tak ,;â€¢''â€¢Â» a large i,ather belt encircling her deer knife plunged il 2 "!Â° thc bear ' 9 deck ' this monster gave a sudden jeand fastened iu claws into the girl's 5 nling her down er frighted n abou t wildly and screamed at voice but as there was no wtthin two miles her cries were not jj 8he then returned to where clara r , ll 5 gurl ' t '- vitlltllc ' iniln:i1 - hie riinits , m ., siuuimvas j^powing weaker the girl was all 8 i h - rk,,if ' with *** â– **â– i the dying animal blow after blow j^ally released its hold and rolled j by the bear's claws clan ,^ tance of her cousin was soon wbl rh "- v " 1;irk pÂ«>t where wfrt y ' wd t,lcn returned '-'-. % p aud bf0ther d â„¢ e to the brought the bc , r * bÂ£_!e to ' *- voi taxider r^j an as a souvenir of hef ter egleand fortunate escape from among the zulus in tiik jaws of a lion i was out after porcupines and wns lying down one night near a porcupine's hole waiting for him to come out i had no gun but only my hunt knife and a large knob kerrie witb wliich to knock the porcupine on the nose for that is you know kills the porcupine at once i did not hear a sound until i found the grass near me move and a lion rot his paws on me and lifted me up the brute pressed his claws into me but luckily my leather belt prevented his teeth from damaging me and he carried me holding on to my belt and coat if either of tliese had given away i should have been laid hold of in a far more rough manner a lion is like a cat in one thing he can hold a live creature in his mouth and not damage it just as i have seen a cat carry a mouse i knew the na ture ofthe lion well enough to know that if 1 struggled i should have my neck broken or my head mashed in an instant so i did not struggle but quietly drew my knifo and thought what was best to do i thought first of trying to strike him to the heart but i could not reach that part of him and his skin looked so loose that i could not strike deep cnough.carried as i was i knew it would be life or death with me in an instant so turning myself a bit i slashed the lion's nose and cut it through the lion dropped me asl would a poisonous snake and jump ed away roaring with pain he stood for an instant but as i did not move he did not seem to like to carry me again more than once he came up to within a few yards lick ing the blood that poured from his nose but there i remained like a stone and he was fairly afraid to tacklejne again i knew a buffalo and an ox are very senitive about | the nose and a cat if just tipped on the , nose can't stand it bo i thought a lion j might be the same and so it proved a dog's sagacity â€” a remarkable in stance of canine sagacity and faithfulness was devloped on tuesday evening in the lost of a children 1 .] department at police headquarters a policeman who took a little german boy to matron webb was closely followed by a little yellow dog that could not be driven away tlie dog was with the child when it was found in the street and at the eldridge street po lice station exhibited the greatest solici tude in watching over it he resented any one's approach to the child excepting the policeman who found it he would bark and drive others away and then re turning to the child would lick ita face j and caress it john wolf a good-natur ed butcher of willet street claimed the child at police headquarters and took it away accompanied iry the dog which ex hibited the liveliest satisfaction at this re sult mr wolf said that the boy who is .'. years old strayed with one two years older they wandered until unable to find their way home the dog seemed to appreciate this fact and tugged at the elder child's clothes until he got him back to the house then he disappeared and seems to have hunted up the other one then unable to lead him back the intel ligent brute followed and protected him nov york sun carolina carolina heaven's bi.ess inos attend iikh comparatively tew people in charlotte we presume know that a lady who now resides in this city had per haps more to do with the introduction of lhe song the old north state,".than any one else not excepting the author of the words hale's weekly published in raleigh tells the story our new york correspondent asks about judge ga_ton's song the facts about it are these about the year 1840 a band of strolling tyrolean musicians passed through raleigh and our old friend mrs mary j lucas now of charlotte but then teaching music in raleigh caught one of the melo dies to wliich they sang one of their nation al songs and played it by car ou the piano the venerable and venerated mrs jas f taylor took a fancy to the tune and asked judge gaston to compose a song for it which he did the supreme court ruffin daniel and gaston usually met for consul tation in judge gaston's office on the cor ner of ilargett and salisbury street and it was during a consultation one afternoon that judge gaston wrote the song writing it at intervals during the session ofthe court a literary society in paris with a high sounding name invited professor aytoun to an entertainment in his honor in rec ognition of his merits as a poet this was rather a weak point aytoun and and paisley being in those days in high repute a.s an aviry of singing birds the bait took his hardship duly arrived at paisley railway station and looked around expecting to be received by a de putation observing no one particular he made tracks for country square when he was accosted by a seedy look ing wea ver are ye maister aytoun v ' yes that is my name i'm awfu gled tae see ye ; come awa the society's waitin ; there's seventy-aught o us and we're a pocts the oxford torchlight says the farmers of granville who produce the tine yellow tobacco and sell it lor fancy prices are greatly indebted to their wives and daugh ters for their skill displayed in picking as sorting and tying up this tobacco the ladies ofthe household are the best judges of color and can tie a knot that always ofminand-jj a premium unble_siii tlie ground just what is meant by consecration the ground in a cemetery ix a great question just now to bury or not to bury tlie body of mr coppers is ex ercising the minds of the roman catholic cemetery trustees the courts have ordered them to do what they promised to do when he bought his lot but they say he is not one of their sort of christians and his body shall not go into their consecrated ground one of these priests said to a reporter of the telegram : consecrated ground if used for the interment of those who are cut off from the'eomm union of the catholic church would become desecrated just as if the sanctuary ofthe church should be defiled by a heinous crime to permit these rebellious children ofthe church or those who are outside its pale to use such ground indiscrimin ately would be to surrender our faith in the efficacy and purptsj of conse cration it would be a severance of the sacred link that binds the faithful here on earth to those who have cross ed the threshold of eternity and let me tell you this is one of the most cherished tenets of the church to which she will cling to the end of time to this end she sets apart sol emn ceremonies to carry this consecra tion into effect and prescribes specifi cally that the unworthy sliall not en ter there but suppose the trustees should be | compelled by lhe civil power to inter the remains ofa person contrary to the discipline ofthe chinch in a certain plot would that interment affect the consecration of all the other plots certainly what course would then remain we would withdraw the blessing from the particular grave or plot the church must maintain its autho rity under the'divine injunction he that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth mc if she failed to enforce her command and preserve unsullied her doctrines she would crumble to pieces there is no method for a compro mise ?' there can be none compromi.-e pertains to things of this world but the church of christ is not of this world i am simply laying down the doctrine ofthe universal church which is as unchangeable as the di vine founder ofthe church one of the trustees also said that they have full control ofthe question as a matter of business but it is a question of church discipline to be decided by the ecclesiastical authori ties if the priest^should extract the blessing from the^coppers lot there are people ignorant enough to suppose that the man would be worse off than he is now in a vault a shoeblack's sermox â€” a little shoeblack called at the residence ofa clergyman of this city and solicited a piece of bread and some water the servant was directed to give the child bread from the crumb basket and as the little fellow was walking slowly away and shifting the gift between his lingers for a'piece large enough to chew the minister called him back and asked him if he had^ever learned to pray on receiving a negative an swer he directed him to say our father but he could not understand the familiarity is it our father your father my father why certainly the boy looked at him awhile and commenced crying at the same time holding up his crust of bread and exclaiming between his sobs you say that your father is my father aren't you ashamed tc give your little brother such stuff to eat when you have got so many good things for yourself â€” new orleans dem a young lady at jackson tenn was entertaining a gentleman friend the other evening when he offered iier an insult she at once drew a pistol compelled hiin to kneel on the floor and remain there until her mother came in and heard the whole affair after which she allowed him to sneak off the new york ladies are again in the field against the practice of ten dering spirituous liquors to their gen 1 tlcnicn visitors on new year's day the sailor boy's character in a certain seaport in england a boy was seen many years ago wander ing among the docks and asldnefor 1 the captain ofa vessel there is one ! coming over the side of that ship i said a sailor who was strolling along i smoking his pipe it was a merchant '" ship so up to the captain the boy ! went â€” thinking all the time what a ! nice kind-looking man he was â€” and tuuehed his hat well said the captain and what do you want i want to go to sea sir you want to go to sea do you ? j and who are you going with i should like to go with you sir i if you'll take me have you ever been to sea before ] no sir and what do you want to go to ' sea for ?" to send my mother my wages sir i she is a widow and i want to keep ' her from going to the poorhouse the captain liked the honest open ! look of the boy and the way in which ! he spoke of his mother and said ' well what is your character ? character i've got none sir no character o then i can't take you !" o do sir ifyou would but take mc indeed i would be a good boy !" can't do it it is against our rules we never take any one without a character of some sort ; you must try to get one somewhere william was turning away with a heavy heart for he knew it was too far to go back where he came from to get a character when the captain's eye fell on his neat bundle what have you got in that bundle boy ?" only my clothes sir only your clothes what is that just there only my book sir what book my bible sir o you've got a bible have you said the captain we are not much used to bibles on board ship well let me look at it and turning it over he saw written on the fly-leaf that it had been presented as a reward for diligence and good conduct at the sunday school that will do said the captain and he engaged him without any further delay protestant worship at versailles english and continental journals are making note of a fact which is spoken of as the irony of history in a recent issue ofthe london times it is said the protestant church at versailles being about to be rebuilt the congregation through the efforts of m jules favre who has married a protestant and is himself an attend ant have secured the temporary use ofa room under the ceil de bteuf whicli is an apartment in the palace of verailles commenting on this the glasgow herald remarks it is difficult to realize that scarce ly a couple of centuries have elapsed since the time of the dragon uades â€” that not two hundred years ago the fairest and most prosperous regions of france were being subject to a visita tion compared with which bashi-ba zouk outrages sink into insignificance for it was conducted with the sanction of the law and under the blessing of the church its instruments were the soldiers who had sustained the glory of france on a hundred battlefields and its leaders were in their own be lief the only true representatives of the gospel of peace and goodwill and labored in an unholy cause with the sanction and approval of the successor of peter this hall where pasteur basea con ducted protestant worship on the 1st sunday of november i.s the ante chamber of the room in which louis xiv ended his life sept 1st 1715 and beneath the room in which he signed the revocation of the edict of nantes m jules favre writes to pasteur bassa : i love your clinrch because it de fends and represents true liberty of thought on matters of religion i love it in itself permit me to add that i love it also in you its worthy pastor and the eloquent defender of those high truths of which it is the palla dium i lÂ«ve it lastly because it is the church of my dear wife and i should be a monster of ingratitude if i was not grateful to it for having guarded for me suoh a treasure capital punishment the y y tribunp always opposed ' to the death penalty for mnrder now j in view ofa recent crime very can j daily remarks it was one of those horrors which furnish the believers in the total de pravity of human nature with a strik ing argument and which make even the speculatively benevolent doubt whether their perpetrators are fit to live longer it is a remarkable fact to which such a case calls attention ' that however strong may be the cur j rent of public opinion against capital punishment there are sometimes crimes committed which seem to put an end to controversy and which really do so for the time there is a grim general acquiescence in the jus j tice ofthe fate of some murderers j nobody entreats the executive to pardon them except those having a \ personal interest in their perservation ' it is also a curious and important ' fact that while a considerable num j ber â€” uot so large however as once j was â€” is anxious for the abolition of the death penalty all save an incon j siderable few now assent to the opin ion that while the law remains uoth | ing should be allowed to interfere with its stern and unflinching execu tion considering that pertitions for its repeal are now comparatively rare and that there seems to be hardly any concerted effort to change the law it ! is safe to assume that society is not yet ready for so great an alteration of the criminal code and that capital punishments may be quite consistent with a somewhat higher humanity than has been sometimes supposed yes that i.s so a bear killed with ax axe â€” some two weeks since ben hannor of catawba creek haywood county killed a black bear weighing 500 lbs under the following circumstances he heard his dogs whieh he prizes highly barking furiously in the woods near his house with an axe in his hand he ran to tha woods to find his dogs in a deadly struggle with a bear and into the fight he waded with his axe dealing such blows to the animal that he caused his bearship to give up the ghost but not however before one of liis valuable dogs had been sent to the spirit laud by the slapping and hugging powers of the bear â€” morganton elude the heroes of king's mountain â€” the yorkville enquirer says that rev robert lathan a gentleman by the way who has special qualifications for the work has be gun the preparation of a series of sketches of the heroes of king's mountain the tirst of which has appeared in the enquirer it is stated to be the object ofthe author to present these sketches as fully and truthful ly as possible to do so with the limited amount of data at his command : and he de sires that should any inaccuracies appear in any of them that lie be notified ofthe same that he may have an opportunity to investi gate the subject fully we presume that there are many persons in this county who could greatly aid the author in the prosecu tion of his self-appointed and grateful task as many of them are descendants of those who were prominent in that great battle and it is to be hoped lhat they will under take to do so â€” charlotte observer at the annual dinner of the st an drew's society at delmonico's chief jus tice daly in responding to a toast as president of the st patrick's society re ferred to the time when he as a waif in the streets of edinburgh grew hale and hearty upon oatmeal and said since then i have been back to visit the home of my childhood iu the course of my journey i fell in with an enthusiastic old scotchman and after telling him about america concluded with a description itf our great metropolis â€” a very comprehen sive description i thought ah said the man i have nae doot new york is a tine city but ye'll think nathiu o it when ye see dundee when i was a politican thirty or forty years ago it was the custom to challenge a voter who was suspected of being incapable of vot ing a.s there was then no system of regis try a distinguished alderman m hox ie was about to vote when a scotchman who was in charge of the ballot box challenged him mr hoxie said i rec ognize your right to challenge my vote but at the same time 1 am a native to the manor born while you aie a foreigner yes replied the scotchman but when i came to this country i had a shirt on mv back and that is more nor vou had general grant will exhibit in louis ville to-morrow supported by mrs grant and a powerful combination if the weather is all that could be desired it is expected that the city will clear j j0 tkk by the extra consumption of sour mash alone news items tlie divided house sharp discussion between the ztro wings ofthe virginia democracy ricb___.o_n december 12 the elec tion of state otheers was completed to-day in the genera assembly the office of state railroad commissioner being the on ly one to be tilled the readjusters elec ted their candidate capt asa rodger jr over col thomas arter the present ineunibent whose term however does not expire until april 1881 the nomi nation in the senate of col carter a cousin of gen lee was made by maj john y daniel of lynchburg in a speech of about two hours in the course of which he discussed at length and with scathing invective the combination existing in the legislature between the colored republi cans and the readjusters he denounced the party of readjusters forgoing before the people ou one issue to-wit : a reduc tion of interest on the public debt and then after their election by negro vote gotten by deceiving them into the belief that they were not bound to pay ai , of the debt though enjoying thu benefits which contraction conferred upon the state attempting to perpetuate tbeir rule by tinning out all tried officers ofthe state and planting themselves ou radical ground to purchase the co-operation of the color ed members he compared the partj to a burglar entering by the back door with a skeleton key then turning a dark 1.in tern upon the contents that he might se cure his plunder mr riddleberger of shenandoah who is the leader of tlie re adjusters replied ably di feudiug his par ty and turning many of daniel's points to their account he defended gen mahone aud his party from the attacks of major daniel and claimed that it was right to divide the spoils they had won the en tire session was taken up with the discus sion which was marked with great abili ty on both sides federal coubt â€” the only case tried yesterday was that of r r swepson of richmond va brother of c v swep son of this state against the commis sioners of mcdowell county in reference to certain bonds issued by the county for the construction of the western north carolina railroad the plaint ids submit ed that the facts in the case as to the manner in which the bonds were issued were the same as those iu the case of al exander against the commissioners of mcdowell reported in 70 north carolina reports a question as to ownership of the bonds was submitted to the jury and decided in favor of swepson his honor judge dick decided that the plaintiff was entitled to the coupons on the bonds a motion for a mandamus to issue against the commissioners compelling them to levy a tax for the payment of the coupons was continued the plaintiff is suing for about 5,000 judge merrimon appeared for swenson nnd messrs yv h hailey and w y flemming fur the defendants charlotte observer a pennsylvania town destroyed new vork december 12 a special from bradford pa says ihe town of red rock has been entirely destroyed by lire at an early hour this morning a lank of coal oil containing twenty thousand bar rels of oil caught tire and exploded and the llanies spread with fearful rapidity in an incredibly brief time the fire had attacked and destroyed the entire village containing u(j houses and in a few hours rendered more than that number of fam ilies homeless and utterly destitute immediately ou recept of the above dispatch subscriptions were started at the petroleum exchange by manager s 1 strong and the members respoued liber ally funds are remitted by telegraph as fast as received inhuman desertion a youth with small pox deserted by his family â€” lie devours his own flesh his death new york december iu an ottawa ont.j'specialsaysashockingeaseol neglect has just come to light in hull near that city a boy seventeen years of age was taken w ith small por apd his family desert ed hiin tbeneighbors hearing of it went with food to the honse where he wasstop ping on entering the room they found the youth covered with blood and at thepointof death food being placed to liis lips he ravenously devoured ii an examina tion showed that he had eaten the llesh from one of his arms in his agony and hun ger lie died a few minutes after tiie a i i val of the neighbor missouri fearful storm â€” dwellings destroyed and the inmates killed or wounded st louis december lc a very severe wind storm passed over tin town of renick randolph county . y ester day evening the residence of byrd pyle waa torn to piece eveiy member of the family being more or less injured and mr pyle fatally the iioubc of jo seph patrick was blown down and mrs wright a visitor received injuries from which she died last night tiie dwelling house of noah bulkhead was demolished and airs bulkhead seriously wounded several other houses were considerflbly damaged and fences tn i -.. etc destroy - ed soldiers called ______ service sl louis dec 13 it will be n some two or three wet ks ago 1 deputy 1 â€¢ i ted states marshal of texas t it arrest several me . i ofthe reve it he was resisted and himself ar sl - authorities and it was i | dob j^j n ._-_:_ tary force from for elliott that he sn el in taking the parties wanted these men eleven in number were taken to dallas . estwday dis grand jury failing to find a true bill against any of â– them a g idealot fi eling .- manifefted j in the commnnit what is charged , as an outrage ami district attorney m ! has demanded the re i shal johnson caj - ii i n ian and lieut en 'â– ant flippen thi ired of thi i cavalry who furnish i ps i ln making arrests and wl i have i i by the g nn_a i ciui i sta to be used : i th i above purpose a terrible explosion â€” amhcrstburg ont dee 13 at the scene ofthe explo ' sion to-day nothing what . ofthe magazine where it stood was i sixty-five feet in diameter and sixteen :' i deep made by i sion a g number of tbe nnexploded mica powder an ! .-.:. . * l ~ i it so - â– cher oo the can ada southern railroad forty-foui from here that ran out of houses in alarm the opinion of many is that it was the work of an incendiary the debt of trinity college â€” at tho conference held in this place steps were taken see rep ing the deb ot : trinity the methodist i i e l'he in debti amounts only to 10,400 and the members ofthe conference are quite bure thai more than that sum can be raised during the year 1880 trinity occupies a deservedly high place as an educational institution and the meth odist will not be so inactive as to let it pass nit of their jurisdiction wilson advance â€” - , Â«*>. entertaining mormon preachers - a few evenings since two well dressed men approached the residence of a gentle man and asked to be entertained for the night supplementing their request with the information that they were preachers they were taken in and kindly eared for the next morning tiny began to discuss polygamy in the presence of the gentle man and members of tbu family who in the meantime had discovered that they were mormons he t<>ld them the best thing they could do wonld be to leave and to leave tt once which they did he says they appeared to be men of learning one about i years of a^e and the other about 30 lenoir ! palls with the harness on new york december 15 the services in the new reform episcopal church of this city yesterday weie interrupted by the sudden prostration of mr payne the clergyman lu one ot the climaxes of his exhortation he lo^t consciousness fell behind the pulpit there was au immediate rash among those present to his aid and still unconscious he was borne to the residence ofa parishioner near by and medical attendance called he had been stricken down by an attack of heart disease from which he had been suffering for some time last night ho was still alive hut his condition is regard ed as ci ii ical next year new jersey will pre anomaly of a state with tho governm nt that is no longer supported by taxat n the coming reporl of the controller nill show that the special taxes on railro is and ihe i inds now invested the in of which is available will afford suffti income to pay nil expenses for the coi year and leave n surplus without i i tax joy mcclellan will i is said in corprate in his annual message an mendatiou that no state tax be levied hereafter the i'nit.d state produces annually bcti een 100,000,000 and 500,001 pounds of tobacco the world's annual product is estimated ar from 1,500,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 pounds in the united states fully 50,000 persous nro emphiyi d in the manufacture ol tobacco earning $ 14,000,000 in wages aud turning onl et product worth 72,000,000 tobaccoranks sixth on the list of our exports aud last year we seut abroad about 5-..000,000 worth gertnauj is our best customer but great britain follows closely thus were the visions of innumerable and stews dancing so cuchaul before that darkey's eyes ignominously : dispelled â€” vs ilmiugton star a d.u key in wilmington rolling oil a stolen barrel of molasses a politemau watching his movements frightened him heranaway aud left it lying iu the street and nevei came bad to get it yvashixgson dec 17 â€” tlic re publican national committee at the meeting to-day elected senator can â– - rou permanent chairman and deci ded that the next national republi can convention should he held it chi ign un june i 1880

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the carolina watchman vol xl-third series salisbury n c december 25 1879 no 10 poetry __^- ==: for uie watchman remember me _ . n hpr me is often heard f stm9 do bid adieu ad do how sweet each loving word - we will remember you now they may roam tar far away whh friendship ever true nsfiuard thoughts will often say fe will remember you iteofh time rolls back each passing year ud bid each scene begone th e mind will ever cling most dear to torn kind living one tbeir lovelv forms and faces sweet that here we happy see uthough wc them may seldom meet will still remembered be oh when from earth dear ones are gone that inn-bright clime to see j f lp as to ay whin sad and lone dear lord remember me kor in the heat of pain and strife ' think god hath cast thee oil unheard nor that the man whose prosperous life ' thou enviest is of hina preterred time pusses and much change doth bring all j s cts a hound to everything sing pray and swerve not from his ways " but do thine own part faithfully trust his rich promises of grace so shall it be fulfil led in thee god never vet forsook in need the soul tiiat trusted him indeed _ fi'iiiii the german tis weary watching wave by wave ami yet the tide heave onward ; we climb like corals grave by grave hut pare the path that's sen ward we're beaten hack in many a fray but never strength we borrow ami where the vanguard camps to-day tho rear shall rest to-morrow â€” herald masscg a jewel whieh nu indian mind can buy sachemic art can counterfeit ; it makes men rich in greatest poverty mtkes water wine turns wooden cups to gold seldom it comes to few from heaven sent lhat much in little all is nought con tent miscellaneous in a bear's clutches t*t terrible experience ofa young woman in the willis of pennxyleania hnttea's j-i.nue pa november ??. about a month ago mi alice corey of . ew york city came to visit her uncle a herman who owns a small farm in the bjounuin-i six miles northwest of this place mist corey is about 16 year old and her r.dts are well to do her uncle has a daughter clara also aged about ki years her father having but one son clara has for year helped to do the work on the farm nd she has become an expert shot with a rifle bbe has a mania for hunting and fre l-.ntly goes into the forest in search of uie i few days ago clara invited her cousin 'â– ) accompany her on a hunting expedition they started from the house shortly after alice with a double-barreled gun ud tiara with a rifle after scouring the ds for several hours without much suc Â«â– they visited dark swamp this wimp embraces several hundred acres is femely wooded and bears are frequently *Â» there the girls reached the edge of keswsmp at noon and started into the teket they had gone but a short dis tace when hiss corey who was walking few yards behind her cousin heard crack h we in the bud.es a short distance â– *. hooking around she saw a lar^c Â«Â£ bear coming toward her clara who u i frequently encountered these shaggy wen called to her frightened cousin to jetoher she then drew her rifle to her her and taking deliberate aim at the ml awaited until it came within easy p and then fired the bear uttered a â– ofl>ain and fell bleeding as clara's was a single-barrel one she seized the gun from her cousin and rged botu barrels at the infurated an nthe hope of killing it outright but * e disappearance of the smoke from jpmh jbea was seen rithing but _â€¢___?: , . rave youn Â« woman Â«Â»Â« Â£****_ cautiously to within reaching wounded animal and tak ,;â€¢''â€¢Â» a large i,ather belt encircling her deer knife plunged il 2 "!Â° thc bear ' 9 deck ' this monster gave a sudden jeand fastened iu claws into the girl's 5 nling her down er frighted n abou t wildly and screamed at voice but as there was no wtthin two miles her cries were not jj 8he then returned to where clara r , ll 5 gurl ' t '- vitlltllc ' iniln:i1 - hie riinits , m ., siuuimvas j^powing weaker the girl was all 8 i h - rk,,if ' with *** â– **â– i the dying animal blow after blow j^ally released its hold and rolled j by the bear's claws clan ,^ tance of her cousin was soon wbl rh "- v " 1;irk pÂ«>t where wfrt y ' wd t,lcn returned '-'-. % p aud bf0ther d â„¢ e to the brought the bc , r * bÂ£_!e to ' *- voi taxider r^j an as a souvenir of hef ter egleand fortunate escape from among the zulus in tiik jaws of a lion i was out after porcupines and wns lying down one night near a porcupine's hole waiting for him to come out i had no gun but only my hunt knife and a large knob kerrie witb wliich to knock the porcupine on the nose for that is you know kills the porcupine at once i did not hear a sound until i found the grass near me move and a lion rot his paws on me and lifted me up the brute pressed his claws into me but luckily my leather belt prevented his teeth from damaging me and he carried me holding on to my belt and coat if either of tliese had given away i should have been laid hold of in a far more rough manner a lion is like a cat in one thing he can hold a live creature in his mouth and not damage it just as i have seen a cat carry a mouse i knew the na ture ofthe lion well enough to know that if 1 struggled i should have my neck broken or my head mashed in an instant so i did not struggle but quietly drew my knifo and thought what was best to do i thought first of trying to strike him to the heart but i could not reach that part of him and his skin looked so loose that i could not strike deep cnough.carried as i was i knew it would be life or death with me in an instant so turning myself a bit i slashed the lion's nose and cut it through the lion dropped me asl would a poisonous snake and jump ed away roaring with pain he stood for an instant but as i did not move he did not seem to like to carry me again more than once he came up to within a few yards lick ing the blood that poured from his nose but there i remained like a stone and he was fairly afraid to tacklejne again i knew a buffalo and an ox are very senitive about | the nose and a cat if just tipped on the , nose can't stand it bo i thought a lion j might be the same and so it proved a dog's sagacity â€” a remarkable in stance of canine sagacity and faithfulness was devloped on tuesday evening in the lost of a children 1 .] department at police headquarters a policeman who took a little german boy to matron webb was closely followed by a little yellow dog that could not be driven away tlie dog was with the child when it was found in the street and at the eldridge street po lice station exhibited the greatest solici tude in watching over it he resented any one's approach to the child excepting the policeman who found it he would bark and drive others away and then re turning to the child would lick ita face j and caress it john wolf a good-natur ed butcher of willet street claimed the child at police headquarters and took it away accompanied iry the dog which ex hibited the liveliest satisfaction at this re sult mr wolf said that the boy who is .'. years old strayed with one two years older they wandered until unable to find their way home the dog seemed to appreciate this fact and tugged at the elder child's clothes until he got him back to the house then he disappeared and seems to have hunted up the other one then unable to lead him back the intel ligent brute followed and protected him nov york sun carolina carolina heaven's bi.ess inos attend iikh comparatively tew people in charlotte we presume know that a lady who now resides in this city had per haps more to do with the introduction of lhe song the old north state,".than any one else not excepting the author of the words hale's weekly published in raleigh tells the story our new york correspondent asks about judge ga_ton's song the facts about it are these about the year 1840 a band of strolling tyrolean musicians passed through raleigh and our old friend mrs mary j lucas now of charlotte but then teaching music in raleigh caught one of the melo dies to wliich they sang one of their nation al songs and played it by car ou the piano the venerable and venerated mrs jas f taylor took a fancy to the tune and asked judge gaston to compose a song for it which he did the supreme court ruffin daniel and gaston usually met for consul tation in judge gaston's office on the cor ner of ilargett and salisbury street and it was during a consultation one afternoon that judge gaston wrote the song writing it at intervals during the session ofthe court a literary society in paris with a high sounding name invited professor aytoun to an entertainment in his honor in rec ognition of his merits as a poet this was rather a weak point aytoun and and paisley being in those days in high repute a.s an aviry of singing birds the bait took his hardship duly arrived at paisley railway station and looked around expecting to be received by a de putation observing no one particular he made tracks for country square when he was accosted by a seedy look ing wea ver are ye maister aytoun v ' yes that is my name i'm awfu gled tae see ye ; come awa the society's waitin ; there's seventy-aught o us and we're a pocts the oxford torchlight says the farmers of granville who produce the tine yellow tobacco and sell it lor fancy prices are greatly indebted to their wives and daugh ters for their skill displayed in picking as sorting and tying up this tobacco the ladies ofthe household are the best judges of color and can tie a knot that always ofminand-jj a premium unble_siii tlie ground just what is meant by consecration the ground in a cemetery ix a great question just now to bury or not to bury tlie body of mr coppers is ex ercising the minds of the roman catholic cemetery trustees the courts have ordered them to do what they promised to do when he bought his lot but they say he is not one of their sort of christians and his body shall not go into their consecrated ground one of these priests said to a reporter of the telegram : consecrated ground if used for the interment of those who are cut off from the'eomm union of the catholic church would become desecrated just as if the sanctuary ofthe church should be defiled by a heinous crime to permit these rebellious children ofthe church or those who are outside its pale to use such ground indiscrimin ately would be to surrender our faith in the efficacy and purptsj of conse cration it would be a severance of the sacred link that binds the faithful here on earth to those who have cross ed the threshold of eternity and let me tell you this is one of the most cherished tenets of the church to which she will cling to the end of time to this end she sets apart sol emn ceremonies to carry this consecra tion into effect and prescribes specifi cally that the unworthy sliall not en ter there but suppose the trustees should be | compelled by lhe civil power to inter the remains ofa person contrary to the discipline ofthe chinch in a certain plot would that interment affect the consecration of all the other plots certainly what course would then remain we would withdraw the blessing from the particular grave or plot the church must maintain its autho rity under the'divine injunction he that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth mc if she failed to enforce her command and preserve unsullied her doctrines she would crumble to pieces there is no method for a compro mise ?' there can be none compromi.-e pertains to things of this world but the church of christ is not of this world i am simply laying down the doctrine ofthe universal church which is as unchangeable as the di vine founder ofthe church one of the trustees also said that they have full control ofthe question as a matter of business but it is a question of church discipline to be decided by the ecclesiastical authori ties if the priest^should extract the blessing from the^coppers lot there are people ignorant enough to suppose that the man would be worse off than he is now in a vault a shoeblack's sermox â€” a little shoeblack called at the residence ofa clergyman of this city and solicited a piece of bread and some water the servant was directed to give the child bread from the crumb basket and as the little fellow was walking slowly away and shifting the gift between his lingers for a'piece large enough to chew the minister called him back and asked him if he had^ever learned to pray on receiving a negative an swer he directed him to say our father but he could not understand the familiarity is it our father your father my father why certainly the boy looked at him awhile and commenced crying at the same time holding up his crust of bread and exclaiming between his sobs you say that your father is my father aren't you ashamed tc give your little brother such stuff to eat when you have got so many good things for yourself â€” new orleans dem a young lady at jackson tenn was entertaining a gentleman friend the other evening when he offered iier an insult she at once drew a pistol compelled hiin to kneel on the floor and remain there until her mother came in and heard the whole affair after which she allowed him to sneak off the new york ladies are again in the field against the practice of ten dering spirituous liquors to their gen 1 tlcnicn visitors on new year's day the sailor boy's character in a certain seaport in england a boy was seen many years ago wander ing among the docks and asldnefor 1 the captain ofa vessel there is one ! coming over the side of that ship i said a sailor who was strolling along i smoking his pipe it was a merchant '" ship so up to the captain the boy ! went â€” thinking all the time what a ! nice kind-looking man he was â€” and tuuehed his hat well said the captain and what do you want i want to go to sea sir you want to go to sea do you ? j and who are you going with i should like to go with you sir i if you'll take me have you ever been to sea before ] no sir and what do you want to go to ' sea for ?" to send my mother my wages sir i she is a widow and i want to keep ' her from going to the poorhouse the captain liked the honest open ! look of the boy and the way in which ! he spoke of his mother and said ' well what is your character ? character i've got none sir no character o then i can't take you !" o do sir ifyou would but take mc indeed i would be a good boy !" can't do it it is against our rules we never take any one without a character of some sort ; you must try to get one somewhere william was turning away with a heavy heart for he knew it was too far to go back where he came from to get a character when the captain's eye fell on his neat bundle what have you got in that bundle boy ?" only my clothes sir only your clothes what is that just there only my book sir what book my bible sir o you've got a bible have you said the captain we are not much used to bibles on board ship well let me look at it and turning it over he saw written on the fly-leaf that it had been presented as a reward for diligence and good conduct at the sunday school that will do said the captain and he engaged him without any further delay protestant worship at versailles english and continental journals are making note of a fact which is spoken of as the irony of history in a recent issue ofthe london times it is said the protestant church at versailles being about to be rebuilt the congregation through the efforts of m jules favre who has married a protestant and is himself an attend ant have secured the temporary use ofa room under the ceil de bteuf whicli is an apartment in the palace of verailles commenting on this the glasgow herald remarks it is difficult to realize that scarce ly a couple of centuries have elapsed since the time of the dragon uades â€” that not two hundred years ago the fairest and most prosperous regions of france were being subject to a visita tion compared with which bashi-ba zouk outrages sink into insignificance for it was conducted with the sanction of the law and under the blessing of the church its instruments were the soldiers who had sustained the glory of france on a hundred battlefields and its leaders were in their own be lief the only true representatives of the gospel of peace and goodwill and labored in an unholy cause with the sanction and approval of the successor of peter this hall where pasteur basea con ducted protestant worship on the 1st sunday of november i.s the ante chamber of the room in which louis xiv ended his life sept 1st 1715 and beneath the room in which he signed the revocation of the edict of nantes m jules favre writes to pasteur bassa : i love your clinrch because it de fends and represents true liberty of thought on matters of religion i love it in itself permit me to add that i love it also in you its worthy pastor and the eloquent defender of those high truths of which it is the palla dium i lÂ«ve it lastly because it is the church of my dear wife and i should be a monster of ingratitude if i was not grateful to it for having guarded for me suoh a treasure capital punishment the y y tribunp always opposed ' to the death penalty for mnrder now j in view ofa recent crime very can j daily remarks it was one of those horrors which furnish the believers in the total de pravity of human nature with a strik ing argument and which make even the speculatively benevolent doubt whether their perpetrators are fit to live longer it is a remarkable fact to which such a case calls attention ' that however strong may be the cur j rent of public opinion against capital punishment there are sometimes crimes committed which seem to put an end to controversy and which really do so for the time there is a grim general acquiescence in the jus j tice ofthe fate of some murderers j nobody entreats the executive to pardon them except those having a \ personal interest in their perservation ' it is also a curious and important ' fact that while a considerable num j ber â€” uot so large however as once j was â€” is anxious for the abolition of the death penalty all save an incon j siderable few now assent to the opin ion that while the law remains uoth | ing should be allowed to interfere with its stern and unflinching execu tion considering that pertitions for its repeal are now comparatively rare and that there seems to be hardly any concerted effort to change the law it ! is safe to assume that society is not yet ready for so great an alteration of the criminal code and that capital punishments may be quite consistent with a somewhat higher humanity than has been sometimes supposed yes that i.s so a bear killed with ax axe â€” some two weeks since ben hannor of catawba creek haywood county killed a black bear weighing 500 lbs under the following circumstances he heard his dogs whieh he prizes highly barking furiously in the woods near his house with an axe in his hand he ran to tha woods to find his dogs in a deadly struggle with a bear and into the fight he waded with his axe dealing such blows to the animal that he caused his bearship to give up the ghost but not however before one of liis valuable dogs had been sent to the spirit laud by the slapping and hugging powers of the bear â€” morganton elude the heroes of king's mountain â€” the yorkville enquirer says that rev robert lathan a gentleman by the way who has special qualifications for the work has be gun the preparation of a series of sketches of the heroes of king's mountain the tirst of which has appeared in the enquirer it is stated to be the object ofthe author to present these sketches as fully and truthful ly as possible to do so with the limited amount of data at his command : and he de sires that should any inaccuracies appear in any of them that lie be notified ofthe same that he may have an opportunity to investi gate the subject fully we presume that there are many persons in this county who could greatly aid the author in the prosecu tion of his self-appointed and grateful task as many of them are descendants of those who were prominent in that great battle and it is to be hoped lhat they will under take to do so â€” charlotte observer at the annual dinner of the st an drew's society at delmonico's chief jus tice daly in responding to a toast as president of the st patrick's society re ferred to the time when he as a waif in the streets of edinburgh grew hale and hearty upon oatmeal and said since then i have been back to visit the home of my childhood iu the course of my journey i fell in with an enthusiastic old scotchman and after telling him about america concluded with a description itf our great metropolis â€” a very comprehen sive description i thought ah said the man i have nae doot new york is a tine city but ye'll think nathiu o it when ye see dundee when i was a politican thirty or forty years ago it was the custom to challenge a voter who was suspected of being incapable of vot ing a.s there was then no system of regis try a distinguished alderman m hox ie was about to vote when a scotchman who was in charge of the ballot box challenged him mr hoxie said i rec ognize your right to challenge my vote but at the same time 1 am a native to the manor born while you aie a foreigner yes replied the scotchman but when i came to this country i had a shirt on mv back and that is more nor vou had general grant will exhibit in louis ville to-morrow supported by mrs grant and a powerful combination if the weather is all that could be desired it is expected that the city will clear j j0 tkk by the extra consumption of sour mash alone news items tlie divided house sharp discussion between the ztro wings ofthe virginia democracy ricb___.o_n december 12 the elec tion of state otheers was completed to-day in the genera assembly the office of state railroad commissioner being the on ly one to be tilled the readjusters elec ted their candidate capt asa rodger jr over col thomas arter the present ineunibent whose term however does not expire until april 1881 the nomi nation in the senate of col carter a cousin of gen lee was made by maj john y daniel of lynchburg in a speech of about two hours in the course of which he discussed at length and with scathing invective the combination existing in the legislature between the colored republi cans and the readjusters he denounced the party of readjusters forgoing before the people ou one issue to-wit : a reduc tion of interest on the public debt and then after their election by negro vote gotten by deceiving them into the belief that they were not bound to pay ai , of the debt though enjoying thu benefits which contraction conferred upon the state attempting to perpetuate tbeir rule by tinning out all tried officers ofthe state and planting themselves ou radical ground to purchase the co-operation of the color ed members he compared the partj to a burglar entering by the back door with a skeleton key then turning a dark 1.in tern upon the contents that he might se cure his plunder mr riddleberger of shenandoah who is the leader of tlie re adjusters replied ably di feudiug his par ty and turning many of daniel's points to their account he defended gen mahone aud his party from the attacks of major daniel and claimed that it was right to divide the spoils they had won the en tire session was taken up with the discus sion which was marked with great abili ty on both sides federal coubt â€” the only case tried yesterday was that of r r swepson of richmond va brother of c v swep son of this state against the commis sioners of mcdowell county in reference to certain bonds issued by the county for the construction of the western north carolina railroad the plaint ids submit ed that the facts in the case as to the manner in which the bonds were issued were the same as those iu the case of al exander against the commissioners of mcdowell reported in 70 north carolina reports a question as to ownership of the bonds was submitted to the jury and decided in favor of swepson his honor judge dick decided that the plaintiff was entitled to the coupons on the bonds a motion for a mandamus to issue against the commissioners compelling them to levy a tax for the payment of the coupons was continued the plaintiff is suing for about 5,000 judge merrimon appeared for swenson nnd messrs yv h hailey and w y flemming fur the defendants charlotte observer a pennsylvania town destroyed new vork december 12 a special from bradford pa says ihe town of red rock has been entirely destroyed by lire at an early hour this morning a lank of coal oil containing twenty thousand bar rels of oil caught tire and exploded and the llanies spread with fearful rapidity in an incredibly brief time the fire had attacked and destroyed the entire village containing u(j houses and in a few hours rendered more than that number of fam ilies homeless and utterly destitute immediately ou recept of the above dispatch subscriptions were started at the petroleum exchange by manager s 1 strong and the members respoued liber ally funds are remitted by telegraph as fast as received inhuman desertion a youth with small pox deserted by his family â€” lie devours his own flesh his death new york december iu an ottawa ont.j'specialsaysashockingeaseol neglect has just come to light in hull near that city a boy seventeen years of age was taken w ith small por apd his family desert ed hiin tbeneighbors hearing of it went with food to the honse where he wasstop ping on entering the room they found the youth covered with blood and at thepointof death food being placed to liis lips he ravenously devoured ii an examina tion showed that he had eaten the llesh from one of his arms in his agony and hun ger lie died a few minutes after tiie a i i val of the neighbor missouri fearful storm â€” dwellings destroyed and the inmates killed or wounded st louis december lc a very severe wind storm passed over tin town of renick randolph county . y ester day evening the residence of byrd pyle waa torn to piece eveiy member of the family being more or less injured and mr pyle fatally the iioubc of jo seph patrick was blown down and mrs wright a visitor received injuries from which she died last night tiie dwelling house of noah bulkhead was demolished and airs bulkhead seriously wounded several other houses were considerflbly damaged and fences tn i -.. etc destroy - ed soldiers called ______ service sl louis dec 13 it will be n some two or three wet ks ago 1 deputy 1 â€¢ i ted states marshal of texas t it arrest several me . i ofthe reve it he was resisted and himself ar sl - authorities and it was i | dob j^j n ._-_:_ tary force from for elliott that he sn el in taking the parties wanted these men eleven in number were taken to dallas . estwday dis grand jury failing to find a true bill against any of â– them a g idealot fi eling .- manifefted j in the commnnit what is charged , as an outrage ami district attorney m ! has demanded the re i shal johnson caj - ii i n ian and lieut en 'â– ant flippen thi ired of thi i cavalry who furnish i ps i ln making arrests and wl i have i i by the g nn_a i ciui i sta to be used : i th i above purpose a terrible explosion â€” amhcrstburg ont dee 13 at the scene ofthe explo ' sion to-day nothing what . ofthe magazine where it stood was i sixty-five feet in diameter and sixteen :' i deep made by i sion a g number of tbe nnexploded mica powder an ! .-.:. . * l ~ i it so - â– cher oo the can ada southern railroad forty-foui from here that ran out of houses in alarm the opinion of many is that it was the work of an incendiary the debt of trinity college â€” at tho conference held in this place steps were taken see rep ing the deb ot : trinity the methodist i i e l'he in debti amounts only to 10,400 and the members ofthe conference are quite bure thai more than that sum can be raised during the year 1880 trinity occupies a deservedly high place as an educational institution and the meth odist will not be so inactive as to let it pass nit of their jurisdiction wilson advance â€” - , Â«*>. entertaining mormon preachers - a few evenings since two well dressed men approached the residence of a gentle man and asked to be entertained for the night supplementing their request with the information that they were preachers they were taken in and kindly eared for the next morning tiny began to discuss polygamy in the presence of the gentle man and members of tbu family who in the meantime had discovered that they were mormons he t<>ld them the best thing they could do wonld be to leave and to leave tt once which they did he says they appeared to be men of learning one about i years of a^e and the other about 30 lenoir ! palls with the harness on new york december 15 the services in the new reform episcopal church of this city yesterday weie interrupted by the sudden prostration of mr payne the clergyman lu one ot the climaxes of his exhortation he lo^t consciousness fell behind the pulpit there was au immediate rash among those present to his aid and still unconscious he was borne to the residence ofa parishioner near by and medical attendance called he had been stricken down by an attack of heart disease from which he had been suffering for some time last night ho was still alive hut his condition is regard ed as ci ii ical next year new jersey will pre anomaly of a state with tho governm nt that is no longer supported by taxat n the coming reporl of the controller nill show that the special taxes on railro is and ihe i inds now invested the in of which is available will afford suffti income to pay nil expenses for the coi year and leave n surplus without i i tax joy mcclellan will i is said in corprate in his annual message an mendatiou that no state tax be levied hereafter the i'nit.d state produces annually bcti een 100,000,000 and 500,001 pounds of tobacco the world's annual product is estimated ar from 1,500,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 pounds in the united states fully 50,000 persous nro emphiyi d in the manufacture ol tobacco earning $ 14,000,000 in wages aud turning onl et product worth 72,000,000 tobaccoranks sixth on the list of our exports aud last year we seut abroad about 5-..000,000 worth gertnauj is our best customer but great britain follows closely thus were the visions of innumerable and stews dancing so cuchaul before that darkey's eyes ignominously : dispelled â€” vs ilmiugton star a d.u key in wilmington rolling oil a stolen barrel of molasses a politemau watching his movements frightened him heranaway aud left it lying iu the street and nevei came bad to get it yvashixgson dec 17 â€” tlic re publican national committee at the meeting to-day elected senator can â– - rou permanent chairman and deci ded that the next national republi can convention should he held it chi ign un june i 1880